The unseasonally good weather has encouraged the plants in the garden to grow, buds to swell and bugs and insects to make an early appearance.
There is a plethora of ladybirds…
In the USA a group or swarm of ladybirds (which they call ladybugs) is called a loveliness. How nice is that. The wife of Lyndon Johnson, the 39th President of the USA was called Lady Bird and that is a curious fact and good pub quiz question.
Other famous people with creature names are Buffalo Bill, Bear Grylls, Seal, Tiger Woods, Michael J Fox and Newt Gingrich,
Butterflies too in the garden, the second one seems to have been in a scrap and come off worst…
There were bees as well, but they were too quick for me to get a picture.
Butterflies are easier because a stay still…
Spring has sprung…
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Hope so!
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Gosh, you’ve now added nature photography to your portfolio … there’s no end to your talents! We can offer you a colony of ladybirds who’ve been ‘roosting ‘ on our bedroom window frame all winter. They’re just beginning to move off now, so you’ll have to be quick.
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The garden is full of the little critters and they are tough too, even the hard frosts didn’t bother them.
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The tattered butterfly has been caught by a bird in its beak, but managed to get away. Butterflies don’t fight other butterflies, they do flying duels where they fly around chasing each other for minutes on end. You can see it sometimes over flowery grassland or perhaps in a sunlit clearing in a wood.
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Thanks John. Surprisingly the damage although extensive didn’t seem to inconvenience it too much and it was well able to fly.
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beneficial bugs for eco agro indeed!
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I hope so.
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Great photos Andrew
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Thanks Sheree. The garden is coming to life!
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😎
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Feeling just a tad jealous now – our part of the Kent coast has been wrapped in a sea fog since Monday, which has hung around all day. It feels a long way from butterfly weather just now!
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Same here in Lincolnshire. I took these pictures last weekend.
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Ah, suddenly I feel a whole lot better…!!
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A good all round post. I suppose Newt was the most unfortunate
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Newton Leroy Gingrich! Thanks Derrick.
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Gosh those butterflies are early! Expect they are the overwintering ones. And I have rarely seen a ladybird since moving to Cornwall.
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Ladybirds are everywhere here in Lincolnshire. How odd.
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Spring has certainly sprung in your garden, but not mine so far. I’ve seen a poor bumble bee that was lost and a few bedraggled spiders but little else.
But, I have a great-niece called Birdie, a re-arrangement of her grandmother’s name, Bridie.
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Thanks for adding this.
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Those are all lovely. No doubt you remember the summer with plagues of ladybirds – 1976 I think, they weren’t so lovely then!
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I remember, that was the very hot summer, they used to bite but on the upside there weren’t many greenfly.
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